Challenge 8: High Angle

So this does not look like a high angle, but that is because I am using my 50mm lens. It still is not too high of an angle, but honestly I do not have any motivation to get out and try something super creative. This was my view from the couch while Tessa was throwing a fit on the floor. She would stop crying if I wiggled my toes at her.

Challenge 7: Flowers

I love tulips. These are at the home I work at each weekday. They were the perfect photo opportunity! 

Challenge 6: BOOKS!

I decided to call the title Challenge instead of "Day" because obviously, I do not blog daily! Perhaps I will get into the routine sometime one of these days...Anyways, this first picture I took the first day I got my lens, which was about a month ago. This is the Bible Crockett's mom bought for me soon after we met. I love it! It is marked up quite a bit, and though I do not use it as much as I did (it is very heavy!), it definitely holds a special place in my heart. The second picture is of another bookshelf that I decided to try and rearrange by color. I saw the idea in a Better Homes and Gardens magazine. I really like how it turned out. I did it in our living room and in our bedroom. Hopefully my husband will still be able to find his books!

And I just love this picture!

I Heart Faces: By the Book

I love this photo I was able to capture of my baby girl looking over her "big brother's" shoulder! This is the baby boy (17 months old) I Nanny for, and she absolutely loves him! They spend every day together. As soon as she begins crawling, I have no doubt she will constantly be on his heels! They both love for me to read them books. This is just after Grant has taken The Three Little Kittens away from Tessa to read himself (this happens often!). If she has it, he wants it! But as you can see, she didn't mind too much! I had a couple of other photos I really liked that I took for the I Heart Faces photo challenge, but this one stood out because it was a moment I may not ever be able to capture again.

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Day Four: Clouds

Finally a day with clouds! But the sky was completely overcast, so I couldn't get any good pictures of individual clouds. I decided to just put them in the background!

Day Five: Breakfast Today

I decided to skip Day Four (Clouds). Hopefully I can come back to it later. This breakfast is special because it was made for me by my sweet husband on our anniversary. He really, really wanted to do it, so when he wasn't able to find the bacon or biscuits I like from Aldi, he drove to buy them the morning of, after I told him not to worry about it.  I mean, it wasn't like my birthday, where the day is all about me =) Our anniversary is for the both of us, but he wanted to do this, so I didn't object too much! Needless to say, it was very delicious and a step-up from my usual bowl of oatmeal! Thanks honey! Just so you know, I took this photo the 10th of January and just left it sitting on my computer, waiting to be posted. So I am not quite so far behind as I seem! 

Day Three: Hands

I am late! I know. But the photo I wanted to take of hands did not work out. The next day was clouds, and we happen to have had many cloudless, sunny days in a row! I may just have to get creative with that one! I do have Day Five done, so I may just add them out of order =)

This picture was taken with my new lens (which I love!) of me and my husband on our anniversary (3 years). We decided to do pictures at Waterfront Park and I used my tripod. However, I forgot the remote, so it was a little more work that I was expecting, but we had fun and got some cute shots. I think the more I use the tripod, the better the photos will turn out and the more confident I will get using it. I wish our thumbs were in focus, but you will understand by reading the paragraph below, plus the hands picture was an after thought, and it was getting very cold! I should have spent more time looking at the playback.

Bad news about my lens, the auto focus is not compatible with my camera, meaning I will always have to manually focus my pictures. In the long run, I think it will make me a better photographer, but for right now, it is giving me a headache! Literally...the image can look perfectly focused through the viewfinder and completely blurry in the playback! My head really starts to hurt as a result of looking so intently at the images. Oh well. That's what I get for assuming a Nikon autofocus lens would mean a Nikon autofocus lens....always read your manual before making a purchase! Nevertheless, I love it and probably would have purchased it anyways since it would have been a hundred dollars more to get the same lens that would be compatible.

Three years ago today, I walked down the aisle and married the man of my dreams. One year ago today, we found out we were having a baby girl. Hope to always remember these sweet moments! I am so thankful to our gracious God!

Enjoy the photo! And check out the I Heart Faces blog from the previous post. Love it!